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    Vakaranga Venharetare - Live Concert in Berkeley, CA on 13 August 2008
    Vakaranga Venharetare - Live Concert in Berkeley, CA on 13 August 2008 Vakaranga Venharetare means "The women who play mbira for ceremonies to call the spirits". Mbira is played by very few women in Zimbabwe, but Patience Chaitezvi and Ambuya Jenny Muchumi were both raised by women who were traditional healers and spirit mediums. In this traditional environment, they began playing mbira in ceremonies as young girls. Their relationship with mbira remains extremely traditional, and the idea of performing mbira on stage as entertainment (this live concert) was a strange experience for them! Erica Azim fell in love with Shona mbira music as a teenager, and has played since the 1970's. This recording includes both nyamaropa and mavembe (gandanga) tunings. A special treat is the magavhu (leg rattles), which can be heard on tracks 5 and 7. Recorded 13 August 2008 at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA by Tesser Call. Musicians: Jenny Muchumi, Patience Chaitezvi, Erica Azim. Tuning: nyamaropa and gandanga/mavembe. [Total time: 75:48]
    1. audio sampleMahororo (nyamaropa tuning) [12:00]
    2. Nhema musasa (nyamaropa tuning) [10:51]
    3. Shanje (mavembe tuning) [4:52]
    4. audio sampleKanhurura/Nyama musango (mavembe tuning) [6:14]
    5. Marenje (mavembe tuning) [2:47]
    6. Shumba (mavembe tuning) [9:44]
    7. Chipembere (nyamaropa tuning) [6:44]
    8. audio sampleKariga mombe (nyamaropa tuning) [6:40]
    9. Tadzungaira "Ndodzungaira" (nyamaropa tuning) [15:19]

    CD
    3448
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    Patience Chaitezvi & Endiby Makope 2005 - Mavembe (Gandanga) and Mavembe Dongonda Tuning Mbira
    Patience Chaitezvi & Endiby Makope 2005 - Mavembe (Gandanga) and Mavembe Dongonda Tuning Mbira This sweet, sweet recording is perfect bedtime music - the mbira flows along so peacefully, with no vocals. Patience and her brother Endiby come from a serious mbira-playing family, with a spirit medium mother. Enjoy the unusual kutsinhira style with prominent middle range melodic lines, played on a mavembe dongonda tuning mbira (a gandanga mbira with the right hand keys an octave lower than usual). Recorded 27 May 2005 at Harare, Zimbabwe by Erica Azim. Tuning: Gandanga/Mavembe, Gandanga/Mavembe Dongonda. [Total time: 78:32]
    1. audio sampleShanje  [7:41]
    2. Kanhurura  [7:34]
    3. Marenje  [11:18]
    4. Shumba  [8:21]
    5. Mahororo  [6:58]
    6. Mbavarira  [7:23]
    7. Taireva  [7:23]
    8. Chipindura  [7:22]
    9. audio sampleChipembere  [13:52]

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    Patience Chaitezvi, Erica Azim, & C. Doubt Chaitezvi
    Recorded 17 Feb 94 in Highfield by Todd Boekelheide. Musicians: Patience Chaitezvi, Erica Azim, C. Doubt Chaitezvi. Tuning: gandanga/mavembe.

    Side A

    1. Marenje (Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)
    2. Masongano [Ngozi yemuroora](Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)
    3. Chipembere (Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)
    4. Mahororo (Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)
    5. Nyama musango/Kanhurura (Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)
    6. Dangu rangu (Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)
    7. Ndomutenda mambo (Patience Chaitezvi & Erica Azim)

    Side B

    1. Masongano [Ngozi yemuroora](Patience & Doubt Chaitezvi)

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